Stephen
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Stephen
@pinenoodle.bsky.social
knitter, hiker, biker, reader, trail clearer
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These guys are watching earth from a galaxy far far away and going bro what the fuck are they doooooinggggg?
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
When he could have been rooting for the dragons to burn everything down and force everyone back o a hunter gatherer society?
oh my god he was rooting for Cersei?!
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Somehow I spoke to more anthropologists for my silly little podcast than Yuval Harari did for his bestselling book
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Okay, Google, when I'm searching for the conversion between cranberry ounces and cups for a recipe, I am not using 'cranberry ounces' as some weird replacement for the 'fluid ounces'.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I like this, except it implies that the Decemberists are completely incompetent musicians.
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks

(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
TLDR - It's okay that the democrats caved--tens of millions may lose their healthcare, but dems will be in a better position to play politics down the road.
What if Democrats’ Big Shutdown Loss Turns Out to Be a Win?
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I rewatched a Clear and Present Danger, a movie in which Harrison Ford takes down the extra judicial killings of South American civilians authorized by the US President and carried out by the military as part of an illegal drug war.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Significant cave nomination form.

cc: @democrats.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch
how about no
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Pedro Pascal was spotted at the LA No Kings protest with the best sign there.
October 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We had an Ouroboros March for No Kings. On a 1.4 mile route, not even in a big city.
October 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My #nokings yellow shirt wasn't seasonally appropriate, so I altered it slightly.
October 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Welcome to the largest day of peaceful protest we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.

Today, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. No Kings Day is going to be big, loud, boisterous, and joyful. Find your local event and let’s make history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Maybe 'normal' for the first 70,000 years, but wildly innaccurate.

My favorite review of this book: "...whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously" per Christopher Robert Hallpike
"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism
October 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It stretches belief to think that 700 people were 'accidentally' fired as claimed.
More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated | CNN
Hundreds of staff fired from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday have been reinstated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.
edition.cnn.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
For anyone curious how the removal of De Minimis tariff exemptions is going a month on--there are ridiculous delays.

I was lucky. I had a package delivered after only 4 weeks of waiting, with no fee because (I guess) the package was registered before the change. It just had to wait to be processed.
October 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said

THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING

Makes you think
October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Fun fact (well, only fun if you aren't trying to maintain a trail):
Under certain conditions from a forest fire, post fire tree growth is more likely to happen in the middle of a trail, rather than the surrounding forest.
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
While out on the national forest, we visited a WWII era B17 crash site where 4 US Airmen were killed while training to fight fascists.

Amazingly, despite hitting a mountainside, 6 survived.
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
While paid Forest rangers were stopping work, I and some friends went into the Forest to do government work, taking care of trails, removing downed trees--since we're volunteers.
October 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
War ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Today, shortly after being overruled about hiking off trail to go around a trio of moose, I got to yell "He's charging!" to my volunteer Forest Ranger friends.
September 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM